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2019 Service Year Report of Jehovah’s Witnesses Worldwide
See details of the global preaching work of Jehovah’s Witnesses from September 2018 to August 2019.
Viva la Vida
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Baptisms exceeding 300K last year – a possible reason
by Viva la Vida intwo facts to consider: 1) most baptisms take place during assemblies and conventions; 2) the theocratic year goes from september to august.
my theory: the borg changed the calendar of conventions and assemblies so to concentrate the baptisms in a single theocratic year.
if some conventions used to take place in july/august, for the 2018 series they moved them to september.
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Baptisms exceeding 300K last year – a possible reason
by Viva la Vida intwo facts to consider: 1) most baptisms take place during assemblies and conventions; 2) the theocratic year goes from september to august.
my theory: the borg changed the calendar of conventions and assemblies so to concentrate the baptisms in a single theocratic year.
if some conventions used to take place in july/august, for the 2018 series they moved them to september.
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Two facts to consider: 1) Most baptisms take place during assemblies and conventions; 2) the theocratic year goes from September to August.
My theory: the Borg changed the calendar of conventions and assemblies so to concentrate the baptisms in a single theocratic year. E.g. if some conventions used to take place in July/August, for the 2018 series they moved them to September. That way they could count the baptisms for those conventions with the 2019 numbers. Then, for the 2019 series they move them back to July/August.
Of course, this will make numbers go down for the prior and the following year. However, my thought is that they prefer some peaks here and there so they can brag about and, maybe, create some enthusiasm so baptisms increase naturally.
What do you think?
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New Branch Office in Argentina in Luxury Area of Buenos Aires
by Viva la Vida inthey are using a construction company to build the new branch office in one of the most expensive areas of buenos aires .
http://www.criba.com.ar/en/works/116-asociacion-de-los-testigos-de-jehova.
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They are using a construction company to build the new branch office in one of the most expensive areas of Buenos Aires
http://www.criba.com.ar/en/works/116-asociacion-de-los-testigos-de-jehova
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The Polish Effect on JW Europe statics
by Viva la Vida inaccording to the 2017 yearbook there was an important reduction of publishers in poland (over 2,000) and small increases in countries like uk, ireland, germany and norway.
i thought that there might be something more than just people leaving jw in eastern europe and joining in western europe, so i checked in jw.org the number of polish language congregations outside of poland.
as you can see below germany, the uk, ireland and norway have a lot of polish congregations.
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According to the 2017 Yearbook there was an important reduction of publishers in Poland (over 2,000) and small increases in countries like UK, Ireland, Germany and Norway. I thought that there might be something more than just people leaving JW in eastern Europe and joining in Western Europe, so I checked in jw.org the number of Polish language congregations outside of Poland. As you can see below Germany, the UK, Ireland and Norway have a lot of Polish congregations. Maybe a lot of people is leaving and others are just moving to a different country.
In any case, if western European countries are enjoining small increases I think it is due to JW moving from somewhere and not because of new converts. What do you think?
Austria 3
Belgium 3
Canada 1
Denmark 1
France 2
Germany 62
Greece 1
Iceland 1
Ireland 10
Italy 1
Lithuania 1
Netherlands 1
Norway 7
Spain
Sweden 4
UK 47
USA 8
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WT sells branch in Hong Kong for 65M
by Viva la Vida inhttp://www.savills.com.hk/_news/article/574/141879-0/12/2015/savills-appointed-sole-agent-for-the-tender-sale-of-12-and-14-kent-road--kowloon-tong.
savills appointed sole agent for the tender sale of 12 & 14 kent road, kowloon tong.
the two-storey property at 14 kent road has a site area and saleable area of 10,771 sq ft and 4,303 sq ft respectively.
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@evilApostate: that can be the case. I found out that they move their operations (or some of it) to the 19th floor of an office building (check here: http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/pc/r1/lp-e/1200272761/15/0)
I found another piece of news that reports on this story: http://www.scmp.com/property/hong-kong-china/article/2022895/prime-site-kowloon-tongs-beacon-hill-expected-sell-more-hk7
Apparently the former branch buildings are prime property (I think they are making good money from moving the branch out of it).
I'm not in HK (or near) so I'm just sharing what I found on the news. Maybe someone closer to it can provide some details.
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WT sells branch in Hong Kong for 65M
by Viva la Vida inhttp://www.savills.com.hk/_news/article/574/141879-0/12/2015/savills-appointed-sole-agent-for-the-tender-sale-of-12-and-14-kent-road--kowloon-tong.
savills appointed sole agent for the tender sale of 12 & 14 kent road, kowloon tong.
the two-storey property at 14 kent road has a site area and saleable area of 10,771 sq ft and 4,303 sq ft respectively.
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Check the Yearbook for 1992 p. 26 (you can find it here from the Avoid JW webpage: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw0qjUoEReBVQ3pVaVVMV1VPbVk/view)
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WT sells branch in Hong Kong for 65M
by Viva la Vida inhttp://www.savills.com.hk/_news/article/574/141879-0/12/2015/savills-appointed-sole-agent-for-the-tender-sale-of-12-and-14-kent-road--kowloon-tong.
savills appointed sole agent for the tender sale of 12 & 14 kent road, kowloon tong.
the two-storey property at 14 kent road has a site area and saleable area of 10,771 sq ft and 4,303 sq ft respectively.
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Savills appointed sole agent for the tender sale of 12 & 14 Kent Road, Kowloon Tong
21 December 2015
Owned by the religious group, the two sites are at the most remarkable location in Kowloon Tong. The three-storey property at 12 Kent Road spans a site area and saleable area of 10,775 sq ft and 7,182 sq ft respectively. The two-storey property at 14 Kent Road has a site area and saleable area of 10,771 sq ft and 4,303 sq ft respectively. The total site area and saleable area are 21,546 sq ft and 11,485 sq ft respectively. The property possesses huge gardens and carports.
Sam Mock, Senior Director of Investment, Savills said, “the sites are located at an impeccable and luxury area in Kowloon Tong. It is worth mentioning that they are the only two adjoining residential sites currently on sale in the market. The owner holds the sites for over 25 years and it is a very unique moment they are out in the market for sale now. In addition, the townhouse sites are usually well sought-after, such as No.22 Barker Road, The Peak (transacted at HK$1.5 billion / unit price per saleable sq ft HK$151,668), No.1 Purves Road (Transacted at HK$760 million / A.V. per sq ft HK$96,729 sq ft) and No.35 South Bay Road (Transacted at HK$808 million / unit price per saleable sq ft HK$110,776). Comparatively speaking, the A.V. for 12 & 14 Kent Road is at a range of HK$37,000 to HK$40,000 per sq ft which is very attractive.”
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Activism idea. Get former JWs celebrities to raise awareness
by Viva la Vida init just occurred to me that former jws celebrities could help in a campaign to raise awareness on some of the most controversial jw's practices (two witness rule in relation to child abuse, shunning, blood).
we would need some of them to record brief videos and share them through social media.
this can be more effective than what any of us could individually do.
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Some of them have briefly talked about their JW past, but there has never been a concentrated effort to engage them in a campaign. I don't care much about them being "role models" (which is also something rather subjective), but that they have big audience available to share a message.
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Activism idea. Get former JWs celebrities to raise awareness
by Viva la Vida init just occurred to me that former jws celebrities could help in a campaign to raise awareness on some of the most controversial jw's practices (two witness rule in relation to child abuse, shunning, blood).
we would need some of them to record brief videos and share them through social media.
this can be more effective than what any of us could individually do.
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Viva la Vida
It just occurred to me that former JWs celebrities could help in a campaign to raise awareness on some of the most controversial JW's practices (two witness rule in relation to child abuse, shunning, blood).
We would need some of them to record brief videos and share them through social media. This can be more effective than what any of us could individually do.
There is a big list of former JW's celebrities in JWFacts: http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/famous-jehovahs-witnesses.php
Do you think this is achievable?
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What happened with Dr. Applewhite's supplementary report? Mistery solved
by Viva la Vida in542 on 16 august 2015, dr applewhite wrote to the legal representative of watchtower.
australia and advised that she was unable to prepare a supplementary statement due.
to other commitments.
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542 On 16 August 2015, Dr Applewhite wrote to the legal representative of Watchtower
Australia and advised that she was unable to prepare a supplementary statement due
to other commitments. She conveyed in her letter her belief that ‘between the research
that has already been undertaken by the Commission and the evidence provided by
others who testified after [her], the questions [Watchtower Australia has] presented to
[her] have been or shortly will be answered’.921